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Key issues in language teaching / Jack C. Richards.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxii, 826 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 110745610X
  • 9781107456105
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0071 23
LOC classification:
  • P53 .R494 2015
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. English language teaching today : -- 1. The scope of English and English language -- teaching -- 2. Second language learning -- 3. Approaches and methods -- 4. Developing knowledge, skills and -- awareness in teaching -- Part 2. Facilitating student learning : -- 5. The second language learner -- 6. The language lesson -- 7. Managing classroom learning -- 8. Age-appropriate pedagogy -- Part 3. Language and the four skills : -- 9. Grammar -- 10. Vocabulary -- 11. Pronunciation -- 12. Listening -- 13. Speaking -- 14. Reading -- 15. Writing -- 16. Discourse and pragmatics -- Part 4. The teacher's environment : -- 17. The language course -- 18. Textbooks -- 19. Technology -- 20. Testing and assessment -- 21. Professional development -- Glossary -- About the author -- List of contributors -- References -- Index.
Summary: A comprehensive and extensively researched overview of key issues in language teaching today. This essential text for English language teachers surveys a broad range of core topics that are important in understanding contemporary approaches to teaching English as a second or international language, and which form the content of many professional development courses for language teachers. A wide range of issues is examined, including a consideration of the nature of English in the world, the way the English teaching profession works, the development of teaching methods, the nature of classroom teaching, teaching the four skills, teaching the language system, and elements of a language program.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. English language teaching today : -- 1. The scope of English and English language -- teaching -- 2. Second language learning -- 3. Approaches and methods -- 4. Developing knowledge, skills and -- awareness in teaching -- Part 2. Facilitating student learning : -- 5. The second language learner -- 6. The language lesson -- 7. Managing classroom learning -- 8. Age-appropriate pedagogy -- Part 3. Language and the four skills : -- 9. Grammar -- 10. Vocabulary -- 11. Pronunciation -- 12. Listening -- 13. Speaking -- 14. Reading -- 15. Writing -- 16. Discourse and pragmatics -- Part 4. The teacher's environment : -- 17. The language course -- 18. Textbooks -- 19. Technology -- 20. Testing and assessment -- 21. Professional development -- Glossary -- About the author -- List of contributors -- References -- Index.

A comprehensive and extensively researched overview of key issues in language teaching today. This essential text for English language teachers surveys a broad range of core topics that are important in understanding contemporary approaches to teaching English as a second or international language, and which form the content of many professional development courses for language teachers. A wide range of issues is examined, including a consideration of the nature of English in the world, the way the English teaching profession works, the development of teaching methods, the nature of classroom teaching, teaching the four skills, teaching the language system, and elements of a language program.

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